2017-05-05 14:34

 

＂Bird's nest＂ scam cited concern MLM fraud make it more subtle

 

[report] net Beijing on May 5th news (Beijing Evening News) news May 4, 2017, the Labor Day holiday a week before a meeting at the bird's nest scam became the social news headlines: thousands of elderly people flock to the nest from all over the country, only because of their "charity people" WeChat group announced that the breastplate and the meeting fee only need to pay 10 yuan, you can get 50 thousand yuan round-trip travel expenses, accommodation is also for reimbursement, and the money, all from the overseas national assets has been thawed".
The people in Beijing, Li Xu, President of China Association of anti MLM, has received assistance from the families of these victims. Every day do not know how many calls to receive, WeChat group of helpless children have been to provide us with information."
National industry, national assets thaw scam was characterized as fraud, but which is the integration of some typical means of marketing, such as brainwashing, then surgery, which makes the victim to awake, and even children with fire and water potential.
Old scam pit children are hard to do
In fact, the national industry, the national assets of this scam, as early as the 80s and 90s of last century has appeared, but the spread of the time is not so fast now." Li Xu told the Beijing evening news reporter, when he was young, in exchange for gold, thaw for the names from door to door "series" scam already exists, "now with the Internet, no longer at the development of people from door to door, you can do this in WeChat group."
With the popularity of the Internet and social software, the old scam to spread over thousands of times the speed of thousands of times, the number of middle-aged people into.
National big industry scam, the victim group was very successful choice. Elderly people are relatively empty and boring, the elderly themselves will want to hold together to warm, play the waste heat. While the elderly are very amateur on the Internet, their ability to distinguish a variety of documents, photos, poor, easily deceived." Li Xu said, because the national industry is a few dollars to tens of dollars this steady deception, busy working children may not have to check their daily WeChat chat records or accounts, so it is difficult to find parents cheated.
When children find their parents cheated, the means to be able to take very little. "If the child is cheated, parents can take the mobile phone cut off contact, but it is the parents, the children are in a weak position, what could they do?" Li Xu said, because of filial piety, many children to take tough measures to parents.
"They contacted by WeChat, children's mobile phone will be very strong response to the old man, a lot of children can not afford this cruel, in case of emotional parents, suddenly can not bear the past how to do it?"
"Their children turn to us for help." Li Xu is the most famous anti MLM field Chinese, more than and 10 years has been organizing volunteers for victims fall into the MLM organizations to rescue and anti brainwashing, "because the victim has not been restriction of personal freedom, do not need to save, it is mainly thought control."
And this means of ideological control, it is hidden in the shadow of pyramid schemes familiar to Li Xu.
Organization and words: self marketing
After careful arrangements, the Ministry of public security destroyed the charity headquarters of the criminal gangs, arrested Chen Yuying, Chen Chunyu, and 31 other suspects, such as Li Na.
Li Xu believes that the qualitative behavior of criminal gangs for enriching charity fraud, is very appropriate, but can not be ignored is that such fraud crime is not simple, but has developed into MLM and hybrid fraud.
The first point of learning pyramid selling is brainwashing, that is, ideological control. Every day in the group of brothers and sisters, to raise the national flag, sing the national anthem and other ritual procedures, issued a variety of forged documents, red paper, leaders speak, to create a real atmosphere in a business." Li Xu told the Beijing evening news reporter, like prime minister Li Keqiang's public entrepreneurship, innovation, general secretary of the Chinese dream, all of whom were misrepresented as a national support for the great cause of the.
The second point of learning pyramid selling is the way of developing members. "People still have to rely on people, if you pull in the small red envelopes to send you a few dollars, this is not strictly a pyramid style offline relationships, but is similar."
Learning MLM third points, is the forever irrefutable words, the most typical is the so-called "macro-control": this industry is too good, if all the people do not race, the nation will be a mess, so the country had "macro-control", the public security to fight pretend, media exposure, is actually in order to maintain the stability of the industry.
"So why choose the nest, choose a place, no one will take care of you." Li Xu explained to reporters, a target selection nest so large, the public security organs will be hit, but this behavior will be interpreted as a liar hit "macro-control": "fifty thousand is not made, the scam can continue."
When put on the coat after MLM fraud, the crime of fraud "will significantly reduce the cost: 5000 dollars can initiate, but organizational leadership MLM crime case requires much higher, more victims of testimony, to improve the chain of evidence, if the public security organs to judge properly, this blow up is more difficult."
Into the group after more scam waiting for you
"As long as you join the WeChat group, there are countless scams waiting for you." Li Xu told the Beijing evening news reporter, in the nation's major industry scam WeChat group, not only thaw a national asset this scam, the administrator will be issued from time to time a number of investment projects to induce the victims of investment.
"This is a serial cheat platform, the administrator will give you some five lines of currency, virtual currency, IPO, consumer rebates, charity, charity, pension investment projects, the investment project is actually a network marketing."
Li Xu said that in recent years, the traditional marketing network marketing to change, and then become a significant feature with other forms of crime, "the traditional marketing spending is too large, the Internet and intelligent mobile phone penetration, the traditional MLM leader started through the network and the WeChat group trader, because the means are the same, so you only need to copy to the Internet can be, then with the fraud, illegal fund-raising, Ponzi scheme and other criminal confluence."
Such as micro business, has become a new pattern of network marketing, whether it is selling mask or selling clothes, its essence is to stockpile (pay the entry fee), the development of offline, rebate, "a lot of micro providers through exposure, false water Pseudomonas way to develop off the assembly line, then pass on to false, false water single line method. In fact, there is no one to buy."
Compared to traditional pyramid schemes, network marketing spending small, fast spread, the evidence is also more likely to destroy. "There are a lot of children into the WeChat group to report the" sheep ", the WeChat group administrators found immediately after the dissolution, the evidence is all gone."
And, the national industry WeChat group will collect the victim's personal information, including passport, identity card, bank card, mobile phone, etc., will not only make a liar easily linked to the victim, the adverse family cut off contact, but also to facilitate the next step of precise fraud.
"This group of people to fry, I immediately disbanded, as long as you have the phone number, I will be able to build a new group. And these personal information to sell to other fraud Gang, after the point of fraud can be."
It is very difficult to fight the prevention of brainwashing
MLM, fraud, as well as the combination of the two, its core is very simple, but the means are more and more clever".
"In any case under the three basic characteristics of network marketing still have MLM: offline relationships and pay the entry fee, layers of rebates." Li Xu said, this is one eye can see, a lot of people skeptical in just contact, but the contact for a long time, it is easy to lose judgment, "the environment can make people, this is why traditional marketing to bring people to different places, and social isolation."
"Once the brainwashing is successful, the victim will stop receiving outside information, because they have all that is not good for the cause of the information, whether it is against public security or media exposure, are" macro-control "."
Li Xu told the Beijing evening news reporter, to take the victim's thinking corrected, very difficult: "the children of consulting I do, I say it is to cut off contact, mobile phone number change, or the mobile phone for the elderly, but most children is hard to do."
Li Xu believes that the best way is still to nip in the bud. Children should give more attention to the elderly, ready to give the elderly to prevent the needle, the elderly to talk about the case, before the old man was brainwashed by the liar, the first to the elderly implanted awareness."
In addition, the law enforcement efforts should also be improved. "Now the cost of illegal fraud, pyramid selling is still too low, many children collected evidence to the report, nobody, if you can do that a knock is good, but the difficulty is quite large, now online fraud and MLM are very subtle, evidence is very difficult."
Li Xu said that the recent media exposure, the Ministry of public security has also set up a task force, if such a blow to the long-term, the formation of long-term mechanism, can effectively curb similar crimes.
In addition, in recent years, many MLM registered company, through propaganda, celebrity media platform, please feeble Wen and other ways for the marketing put on the cloak of legitimacy, but its sales model is still a pyramid style, such as our recent exposure of the fifth quarter, the love happy city alliance, now the scale has been very large. I hope, can also cause the attention of law enforcement."